NZXT Havik 140 Extreme Performance 140mm Heatpipe CPU Cooler Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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1,701 words · ~8 min read
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welcome to an unboxing here on lineus techtips I actually have one of the
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applicants for my new assistant position holding the camera for me today and we
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are going to be unboxing his pick of all the things that are in the room right
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now to unbox and that is the NZXT Havoc
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140 this is a new cooler from NZXT now their claim is it actually performs as
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well as the Noctua n hd14 but looks cooler in their opinion
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although I do have to say that with those blades on the fan and that finish
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on the heat sink itself it does look pretty darn cool let's see what they
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have to say for themselves we've got compatibility for socket 1155 1156 and
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775 as well as am3 am2 plus am2 and
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remember that also means it's compatible with am3 plus because it will use the
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same mounting system specially designed rubber Fasteners to reduce vibration and
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secure fans to heat sink all right unique fan blades Prov quiet 25 D
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operation highly effective air flow very nice okay 6 6 mm heat pipes with
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standard dual 140 mm fans for most efficient conductivity sturdy mounting
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bracket newly patented fins exceptionally slice passing air for
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increased ventilation now I thought these were just to look cool but I guess
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there's only one way to know for sure 100% soldered copper Bas and aluminum
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fins with nickel plating to ensure resilience against deterioration quality
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and long life I hope that it doesn't have resilience against long life and I
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really hope that they were actually talking about just the resilience
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against the deterioration and other things that were mentioned there so
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let's go ahead and break the seal because that's what we do on this
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channel and how do I open the box I don't know
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from the bottom oh there's another seal all right we get to break the seal twice
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on this product exciting so let's see what NZXT
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has inside so the first thing we find is a manual it's not in color although I'm
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not really sure that color manuals are a necessary expense for coolers especially
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when you have a nice blown up diagram like this that shows you where all the
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parts are going to go in order to install it on the Intel or AMD system
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okay on this side we've got our step by step although I mean just for quickness
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sake you're probably going to want to use oh no these are just Parts lists I
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thought are these in order I can't tell let me see y yeah yeah those look like
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they're in order of how it's held down so at the end it's held down by a spring
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mounted bit and then it's just a matter of which mounting hardware you're
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putting over the socket of your motherboard so first thing we find is a
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fan packed in very nice closed cell foam so there's definitely no risk of damage
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to that fan it's got a very short connector on it and it's got black
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sleeving as well as a black connector so it should match your Hardware fairly
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well these are 140 mil fans but they use that cool circular frame design which
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allows them to mount on 120 m mm mounts
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compared to a square frame which would put those mounting holes a little bit
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further out all right we've got another
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fan much like the last one except more
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different all right we have some do not eat desicant silica gel all right don't
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eat that please and then we have oh okay hold on let's uh let's have a look at
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the mounting hardware first and then we'll do this the CPU Cooler itself so
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uh in terms of accessories we've got a bunch of stuff here so we've got what
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looks look at how thick that back plate is here let's take that
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out all right then what are these These
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are rubber Fasteners huh cool Okay so we've got 1
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two three four of those so these rubber Fasteners are what allow us to mount the
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fans to the cooler all right we've got some various back plates and hold down
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mechanisms these are very very thick check this out you manage to warp a
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motherboard with one of these installed on it then you're probably doing it
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wrong this is the side for AMD look how thick that thing is here we'll do the
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we'll do the iPhone thickness comparison that you guys all love so much there you
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go so it's about the thickness of the glass on an iPhone all right so you got
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some plastic bits here just to make sure that it doesn't short out on your
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motherboard okay we've got some additional hold down pieces all made out
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of nice thick steel so you're not going to have any difficulty with uh with
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those bending or coming loose in shipping that can be a big concern with
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these heavy heat sinks because especially for NC I mean when we're
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shipping systems across the country um it can be problematic if the system heat
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sink comes loose in transit and bangs around inside which has happened believe
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me and it's very very very bad all right
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here we go let's take out the heat sink
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itself and have a look
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lots and lots of heat pipes in this thing this actually reminds me of the uh
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thermal right Ultra 120 extreme a little bit although more heat pipes for sure
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than the ultra 120 extreme had so there's actually six heat pipes which
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are all bent in a u configuration it's
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got kind of a a matte silver finish and
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then you can see that it's actually a fairly loose fin array so my expectation
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is that this is this cooler is going to perform best with low RPM fans which is
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indeed what NZXT has supplied with it so
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let's have a look at how they've uh laid out the the heat pipes here so you can
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see we have the Six coming through on each side and then they either Bend IN
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like this or they Bend not quite as much or they come out to the edge of the
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cooler now one good thing about a cooler like this versus something like a D14 um
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regardless of performance cuz we haven't had a look at performance yet is that it
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is going to be more compatible with a wider variety of motherboards compared
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to a monstrosity like the D14 which is basically like two of these side by side
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where you can put a fan in the middle and a fan on either side so it's got
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some heft to it but again with this mounting mechanism I really wouldn't
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expect to run into any trouble with it putting it too much strain on your
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motherboard we can do the obligatory finger shot here so you can see it's got
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some shininess to it although there is some definite some definite grain to the
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finish on the bottom although that does not necessarily impact performance in
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any way now in terms of mounting these fans you notice that they had very very
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short connectors on them so I just want
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to show you guys why that is it's because we actually have an included
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splitter so you just go ahead hook both fans up to the splitter
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that came with it so you can put those on either
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side there we go oops okay well it'll go
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kind of something like that you hook up the splitter and then you hook the whole
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thing up to your motherboard so this is what it'll look like once you've got the
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fans on it it's about this big and we can do
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another iPhone shot just so that you guys can see the overall size of the
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unit itself in comparison to an iPhone
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and I think that pretty much covers everything I wanted to say about the Havoc 140 don't forget to subscribe to
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lus Tech tips and thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at this
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new heat sink which is actually the first heat sink for
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NZXT so here's actually how these rubber mounting mechanisms work you take them
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and you screw them into the not screw them you put them into the fan like this
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and then you take these rubber bits here
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and then you pull them around the edge
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of where you would normally have like a mounting bar which is what we see on
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something like a thermal right cooler now they are a little bit tricky to get
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in there and I wouldn't mind if NZXT also included U mounting bar to go along
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with the rubber pieces but basically you put them behind there on both sides you
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have to kind of you know if I I guess if we took like uh like a screw or
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something and sort of push that in there then we might have a little bit better
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luck the good news is you only have to do this once I guess there we go so you
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put it under there and then that is what holds the fan on so you take four of
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those and then you can actually see that there's going to be a significant
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buffer between the fan and the heat sink itself
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which acts to help reduce the dead zone which is the area in the middle of the
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fan where there's obviously no air flow as well as um reducing the vibration
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that can be transferred from the fan to the heat sink to the motherboard to your
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case